Staresina Hrama Quotes & Sayings

Praise from the praise-worthy is beyond all rewards. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung and praises said For the home made miracle of bread? — Louis Untermeyer

There are pleasures to be had from books beyond being lightly entertained. There is the pleasure of being challenged; the pleasure of feeling one's range and capacities expanding; the pleasure of entering into an unfamiliar world, and being led into empathy with a consciousness very different from one's own; the pleasure of knowing what others have already thought it worth knowing, and entering a larger conversation. (The New Yorker, 13 Aug 2014) — Rebecca Mead

But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament. — Rem Koolhaas

[Complex, our Mathilde; she can bear contradictions.] — Lauren Groff

I liked you better when you had vordo." "You're not suggesting we do it in this tiny closet with two men watching television in the next room, are you?" "It'd be limiting," Ranger said, "but at least you wouldn't have your ass on the horn. — Janet Evanovich